BORDEAUX, France, February 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The commissioning of the CHO Morcenx plant, over last two weeks,
has confirmed that all major equipments (waste fuel feeder,
gasifier, Turboplasma, boiler, turbine) operate on a stable basis,
and deliver satisfactory performances. Between February 21st and February 26th, the plant gasified 288
tons of CHO fuel (waste and biomass), and delivered 50 MWh of
renewable electricity to the grid.
However, the plant has not yet reached its nominal performance.
Ramping up requires numerous adjustments, and for the sake of
prudence, we are making sure each adjustment is executed and
controlled before proceeding to the next step. As a result, the
provisional take over procedure will not be reached on February 28th, as initially
scheduled.
At this stage, we estimate that we will be able to take the CHO
Morcenx plant performances to their nominal levels in a few days
and, save any major incident, at the latest on March 11th 2014. This will allow us to
trigger the provisional take over procedure, which is designed to
confirm the plant's technical performances (availability, capacity,
efficiency, energy output, etc) over 4 days of operation.
Successful provisional take over will be announced in an
upcoming news release.
About Europlasma
Europlasma is a French Group operating in the clean technologies
and renewable energy production industries. Founded in 1992 to
apply its proprietary plasma torch technology to hazardous waste
destruction, it is now built on the following three business
units:
- Torches & Processes - Europlasma is a world-wide
supplier of plasma heating systems and related applications
- Hazardous Waste - Inertam is the global specialist in
the destruction and recycling of asbestos and hazardous waste
- Renewable Energies - CHO Power is a producer of
electricity from waste and biomass gasification.
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Jean-Eric PETIT, Chief Executive Officer
Estelle MOTHAY, Chief Financial Officer
Anne BORDERES, Press & Shareholders contact
Tel: +33-556-497-000
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